In Novaya Kakhovka, a cemetery was flooded due to destruction at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. As Sergei Dmitriev, deputy head of the Novaya Kakhovka administration, said on Radio Russia, this could lead to water contamination.
According to him, this will create very great difficulties “for the civilian population.”
Recall, earlier today, the mayor of Novaya Kakhovka, Vladimir Leontiev, said that valves at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station were destroyed as a result of shelling, which is why water is uncontrollably discharged downstream. As a result, Novaya Kakhovka, Aleshki, and partly Kherson were flooded.
In Novaya Kakhovka, a state of emergency was introduced. According to the forecast, the water should come down within three days.
The Russian and Ukrainian sides accuse each other of blowing up the hydroelectric power station.
Meanwhile, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said that due to the situation at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, he will personally go next week to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, where the agency’s experts will be rotated. According to him, this is “an extremely important moment in the field of nuclear security.”
Earlier, he said that the destruction of a part of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region does not yet directly threaten the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
Source: Rosbalt
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